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Sutton Coldfield town centre market report B72 1, Sutton Coldfield
The standing B72 1 (Sutton Coldfield town centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,813 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in B72 1 (Sutton Coldfield) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in B72 1 (Sutton Coldfield) sold for £400,000 in 2026, the median of 49 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £367,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,490 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,813 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
B72 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside B72 (Sutton Coldfield). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where B72 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
Today's B72 1 prices, from the sold record
Across 49 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) B72 1 home went for £400,000. The mean is £367,800, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
House prices per square metre in B72 1
By floor space, homes in B72 1 have sold for about £3,490 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, B72 1 sits 40% above the national market.
B72 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £400,000 | £400,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £372,500 | £381,408 | 162 |
| 2024 | £375,000 | £398,702 | 132 |
| 2023 | £295,000 | £324,133 | 131 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 153 |
| 2021 | £342,000 | £433,016 | 219 |
| 2020 | £334,200 | £433,631 | 130 |
| 2019 | £246,600 | £323,234 | 154 |
| 2018 | £275,000 | £366,580 | 187 |
| 2017 | £266,000 | £362,797 | 148 |
| 2016 | £258,000 | £360,945 | 179 |
| 2015 | £233,500 | £329,936 | 220 |
| 2014 | £230,000 | £326,295 | 211 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 163 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 137 |
| 2011 | £213,800 | £322,756 | 133 |
| 2010 | £194,000 | £304,242 | 157 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 156 |
| 2008 | £205,000 | £336,038 | 126 |
| 2007 | £218,500 | £370,637 | 234 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 266 |
| 2005 | £215,000 | £382,613 | 181 |
| 2004 | £210,000 | £381,401 | 201 |
| 2003 | £186,000 | £342,657 | 273 |
| 2002 | £138,000 | £259,646 | 272 |
| 2001 | £122,500 | £235,500 | 211 |
| 2000 | £113,500 | £222,744 | 201 |
| 1999 | £95,000 | £189,330 | 210 |
| 1998 | £92,200 | £186,112 | 216 |
| 1997 | £70,000 | £143,556 | 226 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 219 |
| 1995 | £74,200 | £161,299 | 156 |
In cash terms the typical B72 1 home went from £74,200 in 1995 to £400,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 148%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 8% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the B72 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2020 (+35.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−18.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What B72 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.4% | +4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.5% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 49 B72 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 230 sales a year before the financial crisis and 125 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The shape of the B72 1 market
Only 49 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B72 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
The rental side of B72 1
B72 1 falls under Birmingham, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £821 a month here against £1,563 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £400,000 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Searches that land here, answered
People often arrive here having searched an exact postcode, such as B72 1TJ. No public median exists at that scale (a full postcode is only a dozen-odd homes), but every registered sale at those addresses is plotted on the live map, with this page as the wider context.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
B72 1 (Sutton Coldfield town centre): the questions that come up
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What happens to B72 1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in B72 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 31 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B72 district, not just B72 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Hurley Close, Sutton Coldfield, Sutton Coldfield
- Coles Lane, Sutton Coldfield, Sutton Coldfield, B72, Sutton Coldfield
- Coles lane, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every B72 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in B
What homes of each size actually sold for across the B area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £306,000 | £425,000 (+39%) | £665,000 (+56%) | £950,000 (+43%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £240,000 (+14%) | £300,000 (+25%) | £418,250 (+39%) | £535,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £187,500 | £200,000 (+7%) | £235,000 (+18%) | £315,000 (+34%) | £397,000 (+26%) |
| Flat | £130,000 | £179,500 (+38%) | £299,000 (+67%) | £500,000 (+67%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the B area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Zoom out to the full B72 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B72 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in B72 1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B72 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the B72 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B72 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim B72 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B72 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B72 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.